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Re: Help required on rda [FRV]
Vinu Dev <vinudev@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear JimB,
> Thanks for your reply,iam using LinuxThreads,its my requirement to
> use linuxthreads.
> Even i was surprised by the delay factor,is there any other way to
> measure the thread creation time more precise than using
> gettimeofday() system call,if u could advice me on this,i would be
> very much thankfull to you.
> The delay is around 4-5 secs for each thread creation via rda.
> Is there any article or technical documents or could u guide me to
> know the cause for this delay?
4-5 seconds sounds about right. If I remember correctly, it's due to
libthread_db's need to read huge amounts of memory from the program
being debugged each time it stops.
Take a look at rda/unix/linux-target.c:linux_process_rcmd. That's the
function that gets called when you give GDB the "monitor" command. So
(gdb) monitor 1
(I think) should turn on debugging output in RDA, and
(gdb) monitor 0
should turn it off. If you'd like to be able to do other things to
RDA, you can add more stuff to linux_process_rcmd.
In any case, after 'monitor 1', RDA will print messages describing
all the ptrace calls it makes. If I'm right, you'll see a *lot* of
ptrace traffic during those 4-5 seconds.
You might also try changing the initialization of thread_db_noisy to
1, to see more of what thread_db.c is doing.
Good luck!